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This fall Northwestern Law will launch a new Executive LLM degree program in partnership with the Instituto de Empresa (IE) in Madrid. The inaugural class, with a current enrollment of 10 students, will begin the 2006-07 academic year on Sept. 11, 2006, in Spain.

The 10-month program will combine an education in Anglo-American common law and its application in European practice with business fundamentals of accounting, finance and strategy (as they are taught in law school courses). Faculty from Northwestern Law and IE will teach the courses, which are conducted entirely in English. Upon successful completion of this program, participants will receive a Master of Laws (LLM) degree from Northwestern Law in partnership with IE, and, depending on the student's course selection, a Certificate in Business Administration awarded by the Instituto de Empresa.

The Instituto de Empresa is an independent postgraduate school in business and law, ranked by The Financial Times among the top five business schools in Europe, and among the leading schools worldwide. Both the business and law schools at IE run many executive masters programs. The graduate law programs at the Instituto de Empresa have trained generations of Spanish, other European and Latin American lawyers for success in law firms, as well as in the corporate sector and public service.

The Executive LLM program is designed for professionals who seek to study and master a broad range of legal and analytical skills without having to abandon their full-time employment. There is no comparable program currently being offered anywhere else.

The typical participant will be a practicing lawyer in Western Europe or Latin America who holds a law degree based on civil law from his or her home university and has at least three years of experience in a corporate legal department or a law firm. Other legal professionals, as well as executives and managers whose work brings them into frequent contact with legal or regulatory situations, would also benefit from participating in the Executive LLM program.

The Executive LLM program in Madrid is available to students in two formats: The first is designed so that most courses will be taken either in Spain or online, with some courses taught in Chicago. The second option would have students begin their studies in Spain in the fall, then spend the spring semester at Northwestern Law's Chicago campus, selecting from the same courses available to residential LLM students. Pedagogically, the Madrid program is modeled on the Law School's existing Executive LLM program in Korea.

For more information, contact Janet Garesche, Director of Executive LLM and Tax Programs, by e-mail or call (312) 503-3672, or visit the Executive LLM in Madrid Web site.

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